New Registax-imaging of Mare Undarum

105 frames at 80% best quality in Registax.

Mare Undarum (Sea of Waves) is a basin without a defined shape on the far eastern edge of the Moon. In these images, the area is very illuminated making it easier to distinguish it as a dark stain, compared to surrounding white relief.
This basin is located south-east of Mare Crisium, a huge circular basin.
In the southern Mare Undarum is Dubyago crater (51 km) and to the north is Condorcet P (74 km).

Age of the Moon: 27.32 days
Distance: 381.700 km
Phase: 88.8% (0% = New, 100% = full)

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, Plossl 20 mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 26/09/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax, FastStone Image Viewer

The picture is made ​​in the May 12, 2011.

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Mare Undarum on the Moon Telescope images

Mare Undarum on the east side of the Moon through a telescope. To view the video from which I've extracted the captures, visualize Spectacular video Mare Undarum by the telescope in 2012 .
Moon age was 5 days, 30% illuminated.

Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, 20mm Plössl, 2x barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony CX130
Filter: no
Date: 04/27/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: video capture, FastStone Image Viewer

The above image is made ​​in May 12, 2011.

In other conditions of light, Mare Undarum can be seen in another aspect like the picture above, taken on 14 august 2011, when the Moon was 15 days old.

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Spectacular video Mare Undarum by the telescope in 2012

Mare Undarum, located southeast of Mare Crisium, is close enough to the visible Moon to always be observed in the first half of lunation, except the first days, when detailed visual observation is impossible.

As Mare Marginis, Mare Undarum is irregular in shape, but is less in diameter, having about 200 km and an area of ​​approximately 21.000 kilometers square. Notable features in the neighborhood are dark craters with flat floor like Firmicus (56 km), adjacent to the smallest lake on the Moon, Lacus Perseverantiae, or Lake of perseverance, just 70 km across.
      In the video below, Mare Undarum, and all other forms of relief are seen in full sunlight. Because of this, no shadow starts from the edge of any crater or valley. Temperature of the Moon in such conditions, can reach 107 ° C.
From the mid of the video appears crater Langrenus (132 km.), all fully illuminated by the sun. Goclenius (72 km.) is similar to a ring on left of the clip.


Video: Victor Lupu
Optics: CelestronC8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX-130
Video mode: Full HD progressive 1920x1080
Filter: no
Date: 27/04/2012
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing and editing: Sony Vegas 10

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Astronomy Question What crater is this? Neper or Banachiewicz? Images in Registax

Registax
Image 1: 2 frames 100% lowest quality
Image 2: 15 frames 95% lowest quality
Image 3: 2 frames 100% lowest quality

This area of the Moon is the Far East. Images shows Mare Undarum and around it craters of different sizes. Towards the edge of the Moon, we find a depression like a crater of a big size. Through, I searched the area on the Internet and Google Moon, I found no crater in that place. Perhaps it was the Moon phase fault at this time at that moment, and made the shadows to create an illusion that would lead to a such look of the area.

If in he area of the picture below is the crater, then there are only two possibilities: either it is Banachiewicz crater (92 km), or is Neper (137 km). Im inclined to think it is Banachiewicz, because Neper is too far. But can also be Neper, because in the photos, seems to have a central peak, which Banachiewicz does not have. If it is someone who has studied more this area, I would like please to respond to me in a comment.

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-inch reflector telescope-Newtonian, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105
Filter: No
Date: 14/08/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Registax

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Mare Undarum in light-Moon images through my telescope

Photographer: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Camera: Sony HDR CX105 ay 7x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 700x
Filter: no
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Processing: Sony Vegas 10 video captures

Mare Undarum is located on the east side of the Moon seen from Earth, and has an area of 243 kilometers. It has an undefined shape as we can see in the image of this article.

As a location, the neighbors of this sea are Dubyago (Dubiago) crater to the east, the crater has the highest margins in the east side, Firmicus (56 km) to the west, which has a dark floor similar to Mare Crisium.
Condorcet crater (74 km), lies to the north of the sea, which has a restored floor by lava and has a large dark patch showing on west-side floor, and Condorcet P (6 km) and F (37 km) are located inside the sea.

         Mare Undarum has a flat surface, devoid of features, but is full of mountain formations, so those who do not know where it is, below, I edited a photo in which I put names to locate the lunar formations easier.
You can find the video of this pictures here .

<For those who like the pictures of my articles, would be nice to pay attention on advertising that appear in the blog by a click, because it is the only way I could buy one day a better telescope.>

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Video-Mare Crisium and Undaruum in light through telescope

        This stabilized clip shows Mare Undaruum and the Mare Crisium (the south). Moon was in full light and thus is seen differently.
 Mare Undaruum, meaning "Sea of Waves" is located north of Mare Spumans on the east side of the Moon. This is one of many "lakes" in the Crisium basin.

        The images then go to the center of the Moon, when, after passing the southern Mare Crisium (or Sea of Depression), a bright ray crater is seen appearing, life a flour  cup fell on the floor. That is the crater Proclus, 28 km, I have not talked about, which is a small crater, but seen sunlight shows an albedo very intense, this making us realize that it is a very young crater.

Video by: Victor Lupu
Optics: Celestron C8 "-Newtonian telescope, plossl 20mm, 2x Barlow
Mount: CG5 (EQ5)
Device: Sony CX105 at 7x optical zoom
Total Magnification: 700x
Eyepiece Adapter: 1.25 "
Resolution: 1920x1080
Fps: 25
Bitrate: 16000 kbps
Filter: No
Date: 12/05/2011
Location: Baia Mare, Romania
Edit: Video stabilized in Sony Vegas 10

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